Bedstead-brace



(No Model.) I

L. P. ROSS.

BEDSTEAD BEACH.

Patented June 18, 188

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LEANDER FOUNTAIN ROSS, OF SEARCY, ARKANSAS.

BEDSTEAD-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,603, dated June 18, 1889. Application filed March 9, 1889. Serial No. 302,681- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEANDER FOUNTAIN Ross, a citizen of the United States, residing at Searcy, in the county of White and State of Arkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bedstead-Braces, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in bedstead-braces; and it consists in a certain novel construction and combination of parts, whereby the corner-posts are drawn inward toward the center of the frame to prevent the separation of the side and end rails therefrom.

The invention is more fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a bedstead provided with a brace embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the tension device Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the frame of the bedstead, which consists of the posts B, the side rails C C, and the ends or heads D I), the extremities of which are attached to the posts. The posts are provided on their inner sides with the inward extending eyes E, and a continuous tightening wire F extends through the said eyes and is connected at its free ends to opposite ends of a plate G, having a central perforation g. This tightening-wire consists of the side portions g g, which are drawn inward at their centers and connected by the cross-wire II and the end portions g 9 the centers of which are drawn inward and connected. by the longitudinal tension-wire K. This tension-wire is connected directly to the center of the end portion 9 at the head of the bed stead; but is attached at the other end to the threaded eyebolt L, which extends loosely through the perforation gin the center of the plate G and is engaged on the opposite side thereof by the thumb-nut M. This tension device is preferred because of its simplicity, and being arranged close to the foot-rail of the bedstead it may be tightened by reaching under the latter or by raising the end of the mattress, thus obviating the necessity of removing the latter or otherwise disturbing the bed.

\Vhen the thu1nb-screw is tightened, the end portions of the continuous tighteningwire are drawn inward toward the center of the bedstead-frame, thereby drawing the wire slightly through the eyes E E and tightening the side portions g g thereof. Thus the strain on each post is in two directions, caused by the adjacent portions of the side and end portions extending at an angle to each other, and the resultant of these two forces acting in different directions lies mid way between them, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and therefore the actual strain on the post is toward the center of the frame.

I am aware that tightening devices and braces have heretofore been used in connection with bedsteads; but they have either necessitated the employment of a number of tightening-wires or a plurality of fastening devices attached to the rails as well as to the legs of the bed or of rings or other connections to render them complete, or else their tensions have been located beneath the center of the bed, where easy access could not be had thereto, or at both ends thereof, where the bed must be moved and two tensions op erated instead of one to tighten the frame.

The improved brace comprises but a single side wire, centrally crossed wires, and a tension, and is therefore not only extremely simple and light, but may be readily attached to any bed now on the market by merely inserting the eyes E in the corner-posts. The side wire leading through these eyes connects all four posts and draws them inward toward the center of the frame, thereby preventing displacement in either direction, and all the wires are tightened by adjusting the single tension device, which is located near the foot of the bed, within easy reach of the operator.

I also provide intermediate guide-eyes N N 011 the side rails, through which the inclined side portions of the tightening-wire pass, thereby preventing sagging and enabling them to bear the superincumbent weight; but these eyes N may be entirely dispensed with, if desired, without detracting from the utility or aifecting the operation of my device.

Having thus described the invention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the bedstead-tightencr herein described, the same comprising four eyes E, adapted to be screwed into the inner corners of the corner-posts of the bedstead a single tightening-Wire F, rove through said eyes, an apertured plate G, connected at its ends to the ends of said Wire and standing adjacent to and parallel with the foot-board D, a cross-Wire H, connecting the centers of the side portions g of said Wire, a longitudinal wire K, connected at one end to the center of the head portion 9 of said Wire, a threaded eyebolt L, connected to the other end of said longitudinal Wire, its body passing through the aperture in said plate, and a thumb-nut M, screwed on the outer end of said eyebolt, the Whole adapted for use and 1' LEANDER FOUNTAIN ROSS.

Witnesses:

N. H' WEST, W. G. CALDWELL. 

